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0 pointsbisonbear1mo ago0 comments

My advice, from doing this myself and reading best practices, would be:

- Keep it concise, use progressive disclosure / nested AGENTS.md for information expansion - Give agent the high level repo structure if necessary - Have a "why" section to align the agent, high level, what your code is doing - Keep behavior instructions positive where possible, eg Always clarify intent before acting

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david_d89121mo ago· 1 in thread

cool. I agree with all the front points. The last part ```Keep behavior instructions positive where possible```, do you have good experience on it. I'm only asking since my own experience is they're constantly not followed.

bisonbearOP1mo ago

Yeah, I've found that to be more effective. Going with the example "Always clarify intent before acting" > "Never act without getting intent first", seemingly because telling the agent NOT to do something sometimes primes it to do that exact thing

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